Glossary: YouTube, kids and screen time, explained
Short, sourced definitions of the words parents meet around YouTube, children and screen time, written by Sebastian Kinzlinger. Pages about Google and Apple settings are re-checked every month.
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Devices & parental controls
- Allowlist — An allowlist (also called a whitelist) is a parental-control setting that permits only the channels, videos, apps or websites a parent has explicitly approved and blocks everything else.
- Parental controls — Parental controls are settings in a device, account or app that let a parent limit what a child can see, do, buy or spend time on, usually behind a passcode.